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This request for an additional $1.3 million for CodeNext consultant Opticos Design Inc. brings the running tab to $4.6 million. The overall aim of CodeNext, the rewrite of the city's land development code, is to simplify Austin's land use rules and shift requirements to allow more housing and development along major corridors in the city's core. This additional funding will pay for the consultant to finish the first draft, but more funding may be needed to develop the new zoning maps.

The Trail of Lights holiday attraction at Zilker Park has charged an admission fee on some nights since 2014, but each year the nonprofit event hosting the event had to get City Council approval for those fees. This resolution allows the Trail of Lights Foundation to charge fees on up to half of the event nights without seeking annual council approval. The foundation must provide free admission on opening night and to people taking the shuttle.

In this preliminary vote on "first reading," the council supported rezoning the Cactus Rose mobile home park in East Austin to allow for a mixed-used development with 340 upscale apartments, plus retail and restaurants. Before residents were notified of the plans to redevelop the site, the mobile home park had been home to 57 lower income families, many of them Hispanic and non-English speaking. This project received final approval at the Nov. 10, 2016 meeting.

The council gave preliminary approval on "second reading" for the rezoning of the Champions tract at 6409 City Park Road in West Austin. Champion Assets LTD & Champion Legacy Partners LP applied for the rezoning with plans of building an apartment complex with up to 325 units on the site near RM 2222 and Loop 360. This rezoning received final approval Nov. 10, 2016.